MAILTO equivalent in crontab?

[Clay Jones_2]

I've learned to love the "MAILTO" environement variable as it emails STDOUT and STDERR (assuming they're not redirectred) to the recipient specified. Example cron file:

MAILTO=user@host.com
0 0 * * * /some/command

STDOUT and STDERR from /some/command would be emailed to user@host.com in this example.

I get an error from cron on HPUX 11 about syntax, probably because of the @ sign. Is there an equivalent way to email STDOUT and STDERR from cron jobs to an email address?

Thanks...

[Michael Schulte zur Sur]

Hi,

have you tried with
0 0 * * * /some/command 2>&1 | mail user@host.com
?

greetings,

Michael

[Clay Jones_2]

Hi,

Good suggestion, and that's probably the cleanest way short of MAILTO. I was hoping something similar to MAILTO existed to save myself the trouble of appending that string.

Thanks for the suggestion and your help.

Clay

[Michael Schulte zur Sur]

Hi,

your suspiccions seem to be right. Look here:
http://www.rt.com/man/crontab.5.html
It seems, crontab supports only local mails.
I just have this thought, you could create a .mailrc and you may use MAILTO and distribute it to a mail list.

what do you think?

Michael